Prime Minister Treasurer Australia to engage organised labour as G20 president in 2014 MON 05 AUGUST 2013 The Australian Government is very pleased to announce today that ACTU President Gerardine (Ged) Kearney will

in the way that some larger multinationals do. That's desperately unfair. We have worked damn hard through the G20 and with the OECD, to have global integrity measures in place. And we are working with them on a continuing basis. That is

do so. That’s not an unreasonable request. This is in line with the OECD’s work, it’s in line with the G20 work. We want to see Australia being, not necessarily leading that way, but we want Australia to be right up there, engaging in

needs to be a global response. Do you agree? BOWEN: Of course it is better through the G20 and OECD for Australia to be working with our colleagues around the world, but you don’t have a false choice here. You can

non-mining sectors to grow to make up for falling mining investment. The Treasurer likes to lecture other G20 countries on their growth plans, but clearly there was no growth plan contained in the Treasurer’s first Budget for the Australian economy. WEDNESDAY,

research and development, sees these sorts of results. We have a Treasurer more keen on lecturing other G20 countries instead of actually putting together a plan to grow the Australian economy and Australian jobs. Before the election Joe Hockey said the

it's undermined by that action. Secondly that's made worse by the fact that this is Australia’s year as chairing the G20 and we've had effectively a lame duck Secretary in Dr. Parkinson. The treasury Secretary should be Dr. Parkinson going forward. Having said that,